About Unilever

On any given day, 2.5 billion people use Unilever products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Making sustainable living commonplace

There is no business case for enduring poverty and runaway climate change.

Paul Polman, Unilever CEO

Great products from our range of more than 400 brands give us a unique place in the lives of people all over the world.

When consumers reach for nutritionally balanced foods or indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps that combat disease, luxurious shampoos or everyday household care products, there’s a good chance the brand they pick is one of ours. Seven out of every ten households around the world contain at least one Unilever product, and our range of world-leading, household-name brands includes Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s and Omo. Trusted local brands designed to meet the specific needs of consumers in their home market include Blue Band, Pureit and Suave.

Whatever the brand, wherever it is bought, we’re working to ensure that it plays a part in helping fulfil our purpose as a business – making sustainable living commonplace.

We want our business to grow but we recognise that growth at the expense of people or the environment is both unacceptable and commercially unsustainable. Sustainable growth is the only acceptable model for our business.

Our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) is central to our business model. It sets out how we are growing our business, whilst reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact.

Our USLP has three big goals:

Help more than a billion people to improve their health and wellbeing.

Halve the environmental footprint of our products.

Source 100% of our agricultural raw materials sustainably and enhance the livelihoods of people across our value chain.

Working with others to build a brighter future

We know that our products must be sustainable at every stage in their life-cycle, not just in our factories. That means working with others, including our suppliers, consumers, governments, NGOs and other businesses to help create the major changes that are needed to address the biggest challenges facing our world.

Business facts & figures

€52.7 billion turnover in 2016

57% of our business is in emerging markets

13 brands have sales of more than €1 billion a year

169,000 people work for Unilever

46% of our managers are women

By 2016, over 600 Unilever sites were sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill

No.1 FMCG graduate employer of choice in 34 of the 60 countries we recruit from

In 2016 our Sustainable Living brands grew 50% faster than the rest of the business